Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 May 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2017
Chapter 22 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
9:00 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
Before I go to the national debt, I want to ask about the income tax which was 1.2%, or €236 million, below profile. This year the rate of unemployment is 4.6% and it was higher than that in 2017. Does the Department have an explanation of why it is below profile? Does it understand the nature of the workforce, for example? Is that impacting on the gig economy and the likes of part-time work? Is there an analysis on that?
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